Pensees: Unreasonable Secularists and Unreasonable Islamists in Bed Together

Unreasonable Secularists and Unreasonable Islamists in Bed Together

I want to urge my friends to understand what took place last week with the recent international/diplomatic flap provoked by the Pope’s speech. I think it is very important that believers grasp what actually took place because it will be a matter of conversation at workplaces and schools. The fact that the Pope apologized is in itself a historic event, but I think that it is critical to know the core issues that expose opposite worldviews. I think that the real issue is secularism taking advantage of unreasonable Islamic response to promote their view that all religion is unreasonable.

Let me attempt a re-statement:

The Pope essentially exposed Allah as an unreasonable god (although he did this indirectly and maybe unintentionally). The Christian God is reasonable because reason is sourced in Him (this he stated intentionally).

Now here’s the fascinating result: Obviously, the Muslims are going to get vexed by the truth. That’s a given. No surprize there. But secularists are in a bind. Secularists (if they believe in a god at all) believe that god is unreasonable. In this they sympathize with the Pope’s assessment of the Islamic god. However, secularists believe that Christians are not that much different than Muslims in that we too worship an unreasonable god. They cannot and will not abide the thought that reason is sourced in God because that would logically signify that reason will ultimately lead back to God or, at the very least, religion (in this case Christianity) is reasonable.

I think that the secularists are offended by the Pope’s speech as well. Therefore, it serves their interests to stir up and highlight unreasonable Muslim reaction by media spotlighting so as to push forward their agenda that all religion is unreasonable.

That’s my opinion.

If you know nothing more than what you have seen on the news, I would suggest three excellent articles in this order:

1. Missionary Jeff Brown from Germany writes a short, simple, respectful explanation. I thought this was outstanding.

2. John Piper gives ten points to believers on how we should respond.

3. Read the Pope’s speech for yourself. It is a huge boost to be able to say to your colleague at work, “Well, I have actually read the speech. Did you?”